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The Vanishing New York blog spotted Thursday a notice of closure posted on the West 58th Street cinema's door. “Unfortunately, our lease has ended and the Paris Theatre is now closed,” the note read.

The single-screen theater was operated by City Cinemas, which has removed the location from a list of its theaters on the company website. Reading International, the parent company of City Cinemas, is yet to confirm the closure and could not immediately be reached for comment.

Deadline reported in June that the theater would close at the end of August unless something “drastic” happened to save it. The building is owned by billionaire developer Sheldon Solow.

As Crain’sdetailed in a feature last fall, aging movie theaters have become a preservation battleground that often pits developers against elected officials and residents seeking to maintain community gathering spaces. One of those battlegrounds was the Sunshine Cinema on the Lower East Side. Residents lamented the loss when the five-screen theater closed last year. In April, the developer who purchased the building secured a $67 million construction loan to start work on a 9-story office tower.

The Paris Theatre has closed before, the Vanishing New York post notes. In 1990 the lease similarly ran out before the theater returned under new management.

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